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Cancer New Moon: The Mother of all Eclipses!

Giving birth to a new world… Artwork by Pamela Matthews

Kimberly Baskett Gunter was terrified. It was the third time her two-month-old daughter had nearly choked to death, yet doctors still couldn’t find anything wrong with her.…

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Sagittarius Full Moon Eclipse: A Tipping Point

Rioting in the streets. Cop cars torched. Protests
in at least 140 cities. After the horrifying May 25 killing of George Floyd by
police, frustrations already stretched to the breaking point during Covid-19 lock-downs
could no longer be contained.…

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Gemini New Moon: Seeking the Truth

Lately we seem to be living in a parallel universe. Fact or fiction?  Wisdom or delusion? When reality is as distorted as a fun-house mirror and people are at each other’s throats, it’s hard to say for sure.…

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Scorpio Full Moon: A Time to Howl

What do you do when you’re at your wits’ end? You step outside and howl. You howl for a front-line worker who died in a car wreck on her way to work.…

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Taurus New Moon: Oneness with Nature

“The times are urgent. We must slow down.”  –African proverb.

Watercolor by Isobel Lillian Gloag

What are you doing these days to stay relaxed and connected? Lately I’ve been taking afternoon siestas in the garden (when it’s not raining), where I created a sitting area.…

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Libra Full Moon: Creative Collaborations

This time of worldwide illness and quarantine is frustrating beyond belief. But it has also proved to be an incubator for creative collaborations – from teenagers shopping for elderly neighbors to people rescuing foster pets at drive-through shelters.…

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A Venus Prosperity Talisman

Create your own or copy mine!

In the midst of a pandemic, as we scramble to shore up our financial resources, comes a timely blessing and opportunity. Tomorrow, March 27th we have Venus, powerful in her own sign of Taurus along with the Moon, exalted in Taurus, on a Friday, the day that’s sacred to Venus, under a waxing Moon.…

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Aries New Moon: Going Viral

Thinking of others…

A new season is upon us and all of nature is coming back to life. The March 19 Equinox marks a fresh start. Yet here we are in the midst of a pandemic, trapped in our homes, insecure about our physical and financial well-being.  …

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Virgo Full Moon: The Voice of Reason

Healing Hand, Temples of Humankind, Damanhur

Sometimes it’s hard to know which end is up. We’re living in a time of hype and fear-mongering, especially over the last few weeks with Mercury retrograde in fuzzy-headed Pisces (it has now backtracked briefly into Aquarius, where it turns direct on March 9).…

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Pisces New Moon: Melt Your Frozen Heart

Are you ready to melt the glacier in your heart?

Recently I listened to an interview with shaman-elder Agaanagaq (Uncle) Angakkorsuaq from the far north of Greenland. In the Global Ecovillage Network Summit, he said that in the early 60s, his people discovered that an enormous nearby glacier was melting – something unheard of in their history.…

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